New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 11, 1917, Page 6

'NEW 'BRITAIN ’"Brit_;_nin Herald. | D PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. excepte m., ing, 67 at te Post Omce at New Britain Becond Class Mail Mattor. earrter to any part of the city 1! "Z.m. a wek, 65 cents 8 month. i tons for paper to be sent by mall, ERavabie in advance, 60 cents & month, & year. 84 dally (Runds d) at 4:15 p. Heralda ‘Butia Cnurch St. uly profitable advertising medium in 3 culation books and press o’ elwave ‘opon o advertisers. ‘ found on_sale at Hota- 'v':] l?nfa, 42nd St. and Broad- York City; Board Walk, City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. Office denjed us the right to be l. They filled our com- nitles with vicious spies and rators. They sought to o1 our citizens. * * * They nght by viclence to destroy industries and arrest our e. They tried to incite 3 to take up arms against and to draw Japan into hos- alliance with her. They im- ntly denied us the use of the h seas and repeatedly execut- their threat that they would to their death any of our e who ventured to approach coasts of Europe. ¢ * * flag under which we serve have been dishonored had ' withheld our hand. ~—WOODROW WILSON. NOT TILL THEN. ollette having introduced a reso- in .the Senate providing for a ent'by America of its objects in ning the war, and a re-state- .by the Entente Allies of their , might be interested, with others, to re-read the official re- of the State department on the \of the steamship Belgian Therein will be found ample for \war, if no other cause ex- ‘We take this sample of bar- from the midst of the report:— 4 officers of the submarine asked her there were any gunners left and ordered the crew of the Prince on the submarine. The 'eboats and ordered the crew to their life-preservers. The arine proceeded for fourteen and then submerged, drowning ew except Willlam Snell, colored, ksonville, Fla., the chief en- eer, and a Russian.” Dntil such atrocities as that are . from ,the world there can be has commonly come to be known as | ‘“velvet.” Then there is added rec- ompense for those who see service abroad. In the new insurance bill | there is a proviso which, should the bill pass, will allow each man with ‘ dependents to effect a monthly sav- ing of as much as he cares, the gov- ernment to stand as sponsor for his funds. Further, it provides allow ances from the United States treasu: to be added to these savings for de- | pendents. In the event of death, the depend- ents of soldiers will be paid in a lump sum sufficient money to take care ot | them for the rest of their days. Tn case of disability to the soldier will be compensated in proportion to the extent of his Injury. Under such a plan as this there will be no fraud perpetrated upon the ‘government, | there will be little chance for an in- | justice being worked on any of ths fighting men. Had the same system been in effect in the Civil War the nation would have been saved many millions of dollars, for this plan car- ries with it a complete checking sys- tem which will. prevent ‘“drummed up” cases for pensioning. he “THE KID HAS GONE .TO .THE COLORS.” One New Britain mother of her son who has gone to do his bit: “He was not subject to the draft, Being under weight he was rejected from the officers’ reserve = cOrps. Otherw@e physically fit, he made an- other attempt to get intthe army. He | said: ‘I shall get in some place.’ De- | termined; he succeeded in joining the and sailed for writes Ambulance corps France July 23.” That is the spirt of America. That 1s the spirit of the patriot. Refused admittance on account of being un- derweight, this American boy, not even subject to the draft, waived aside the barriers interposed by Uncle Sam and went to “do his bit.” So long ‘as there are brave 'men and true like this the nation need never worry. So long as American mothers rear boys who know what it means to make sacrifice there is no danger of Old Glory ever being trailed in the dust. Just such cases as the one afore- mentionel are noted every day in the | return blanks to the Herald In the campaign for a complete list of the boys who have gone away with the colors deeds of valor and patrioism | are being discovered. When the his- tory is written there will be many an ifteresting story told It is well then | that every effort be made to gather | a solid list of names. The books | should not be closed until their pages contain the name of each and every | New Britain man who offered his | services to the country in this hour{ i of need. Hence the request that all readers help in this work. Fill out a blank for some boy. Do not leave | peace with Germany. Any nation, an at war, which orders its soldiers sailors to commit such cold-blood- I murder cannot be classed as civil- When these deeds come to an , 'when Germany is made realize it cannot wilfully murder in- gent men, women, and children, then @ not till then shall there be a dis- jalon of terms of peace. LaFollette fht also Te-read with profit Presi- | Wilson’s message to the Ameri- ngress, part of ‘'which is printed SOLDIERS’ INSURANCE. hat pensions for soldiers amount may be realized when it is con- red \that the United States is not finished paying for disabilities fered in. the Civil War. More than years, and an army of clerks Nashington make out the pension h querterly period. This drain o public purse has been aug- by the Spanish war list. would happen to it if the pen- for the present war were loaded i no one can tell. The Federal pvernment, however, is considering new plan. Instead of pensions the 1diers may be insured by the Gov- nment. l 1n both branches of Congress thers ps introduced yesterday the Soldiers’ surance Bill which may cause an pheaval in the nation's plan for tak- 18 care of its patriots. Government de and casualty insurance for sol- Jers has been talked of for some - t this is the first step toward jew system. In principle it fits to the same thing as pen- with the saving grace of ef- i more equitable adjustment The Government will not this insurance from private com- Bntes; 1t will insure the fighting men el and collect the premiums frém iblic taxes. The American soldier will be well lken care of in this war. As things stand he is the best paid fighting jan in the world. Under'the recent e in pay our boys get thirty dol- @« month in the lowest rank of army which, considering food, hing and shelter, amounts to a \r sum. In fact, the pay is what it for the other fellow who migm§ forget, GOLDEN HARVESTS. } If the wheat belt has failed to furnish the desired quota to the country, the corn belt has not failed. The government crop report is en- couraging in this respect. Let wheat do what it will, corn will not be % slacker. The record harvest for corn came in 1912. Since then there has been no crop that could compare with the one | of seven years ago. Yet on the first day of this month the government | experts predicted that the old record | would go by the boards and that this year's crop would exceed the one of 1912 by some 67,000,000 bushels. Rain having gotten in its good work all over the corn belt the experts now clalm that the crop will be 380,000,000 bushes over and above the first estimate, or 3,571,000,000 bushels. 5 While corn may hold the honor of being the greatest single crop of the season, records are looked for in other fields. White and sweet potatoes are coming along at a brisk rate. Oats, barley, rye and hay are doing famous- ly. In fact, the entire food situation looms up large and magnificent upon the nation’s war horizon. <Conserva- tion is getting in its good work. Economy is being rewarded. The fourth payment, of thirty per centum, on Liberty Loan Bonds pur- chased on installments is due on Aug- ust 15th. The payments must be made on or before that date accord- ing to the official statement of termsl and conditions of the sale of Liberty Loan Bonds issued by Secretary Me- Adoo of the Treasury at the time sub- scriptions to the bonds were invited. Whether the bonds wére purchased from the Treasury or from the Fed- eral Reserve Banks or through other banks or agencies it is important that these and succeeding installments be paid promptly. i at poker. | they can usnally exercise their 8¢ Add things to be thankful for: never hear from Villa any more. We FACTS AND FANCIES. T. R. should have gone in for the Red Cross stuff.—Boston Transcript. Many tobacco.growers in the hail belt will wish they had planted some- thing to eat.Springfield Republican. . | | Just as John Ridd crawled to And now it turns out that the man ; of the hour, Herbert C. Hoover is ihe son of a minister.—South Nor- walk Sentinel. The pastor of a church in Garfleld N. J., has brought suit against three friends for cheating him out of $800 Clergymen should still stick dominoes.—New Haven' Union. to Won't somebody vplease send a tracer after those gentlemen who a few weeks ago announced that they had the problem of defeating. subma- rines solved ?— 1 ~troit Free Press. It is to be fecared that if they put the real American moto on our coins, | it wepuld not be “In God We Trust.” put “I should worry.”—Meriden Journal. they funds, on- sending candy to the front.—New London When people have given all want to the soldiers’ smoke erosity by nurses at the Day. “We took'a long time to form this government of the United Sta.tevs of America,” said Mr. Root at Wash- ington yesterday, “‘and I judge from the newspapers that we have not yet perfected it.” Also, it took a long time to form'the newspapers of this country, and we judge from the gov- ornment that we have not yet-per- fected them.—i{, P. A. in New York Tribune. e e Lo “The Flowers.” (James Whitcomb Riley). Take a feller ’'at’s sick and la}d up on the shelf All shaky and ga'nted and pore— Jes’ all so knocked out he can't handle hisself With a stiff upper lip agy more; Set up all alone in the gloom of a room As dark as the tomb. and as grim, And then take and send him some roses in bloom And you can have fun out o’ him. ketched him ‘fore now— when his liver was sound And his appetite notched like a saw, A-mocking you, maybe, mancin’ round With a big posey bunch paw; But you ketch him say, health is away, And he's flat on his back in dis- tress, And then you kin trot out yer bokay And not be insulted, I guess. You've for ro- in yer when his little You see, it's like this, what his weaknesses is— Them flowers makes’ him think of the days Of his innocgnt youth, mother 6f his, And’ the roses that she used to raise— So here, all alone with the roses you send— Bein’ sick and all faint— My eyes—my eyes is—my eyes is old friend— Is a-leakin’—I'm blamed ain't! COMMUNICATED LOVE IS A FUNNY THING., and that trimbly and ef they Every Woman Is Not Like Lorna Doone, But the Garden Can- not Grow All Peaches. To the Editor of the Herald: That was a beautiful description of the Valley of the Lyne you ran on Thursday’s editorial page, a wonderful pen picture of the environment that knew Lorna Doone and her stalwart admirer, John Ridd. If there is one masterpiece in fic- tion I believe it to be Blackmore’s great novel “Lorna Doone.” I have read it and re-read it until my copy is almost ready to fall to pieces. Of all the wonderful characters Lorne Doone is by far, to my way of think- ing, the sweetest, the fairest, the lovli- est. Which brings me to unfold my secret. I was in love but once; and that time my love was the reirsar- nation of Lorna Dooae; that is, if Lorna ever 1!\'0‘] outside the mind of Blackmore. Ah, how well do I re- niember those charming bovhood days I spent in courting my Lorna. Of course, that was not her name. For reasons best known to myself I must forever keep that a secret. You understand! It must have been in my very early xhildhood that I read the . novel “Lorna Doone.” And I was im- pressed as you know I had to be, though I will say that it takes quite a mind for a little shaver to wade through all the mazes of description offered by John Ridd in his narration of himself, Lorna and the Doone-land country. I stuck fast, however, and finished the book. It was better than any dime novel the eye of an Amer- jcan boy ever scanned. For were there not fights in that volume? Just so. And I went into every battle right by the side of honest John Ridd. I helped him to get away from the wiles and wickedness of ‘“Carver” Doone, and T was there at the death- scene when John pushed that wicked old scoundrel’s head deep in the mud. Yes, .and I went to London with John Ridd and met the King. And I was in the city on the Thames when Mistress Lorna, as good John delighted in calling her, was a guest at the home of ker uncle, or some such kinfolk. For days and night, I As “Ollie” James remarked about Penrose, “Boise will be Boise.” thought of nothing else but Lorna Doone. In my waking moments I compared every girl I knew with the | trate before two at night I dreamed of Lorna. She was my goddess. So it happened that one fine day, oh, many years ago, I chanced to meet a little malden who answered the description. It was just as if she stepped out of the book. I rubbed my eyes. Sure enough, there was my Lorna. And my heart went off in a wild palpitation of delight. I had found my Dulcinea. What a moment! the top of the water-way and there dis- covered his love, so I at an afternoon tea leoked over the diinty bit of china-ware in my hand and fell pros- bewitching brown eyes. ‘And I did what any man would have done under the. circumstances. I dropped the cup,—and broke it. Years after I recall that incident as a forerunner to a broken heart. For I, unlike John Ridd, did not marry my' Lorna. Fato so ordained. Perhaps you have guessed it. I am a bachelor. I re- peat it, a bachelor. And a confirmed one at that. ‘I was baptised in the blood of bachelorhood some time ago. I have been confirmed for going on these many years; I refuse to say how many. And all because there was a “Carver” Doone figuring in «the life story of my Lorna. Oh, those vil- lans! John Ridd murdered his nemesis and livea to marry his Lorna, whom death almost took from him at the very altar. My enemy, as they are wont to say in the classics, “got awdy with it.” He went to the altar with my Lorna, married her, and I have not even had a chance to mur- der him. For, you see, I haye never seen the man. He took advantage of my long protracted absence from the neighborhood of my loved one. And, like a thief in the night, he stole the only, woman I ever loved, the only woman who ever loved me, and, con- sequently the only woman who will ever figure in my life. I'll get him yet, though, the rascal. I am patiently waiting for his death. He had better be dead before I meet him. That is the way I feel about it all. Love, ah me, love is a funny thing. Show. me the man who has ever read “Lorna Doone” and who has not fal- len in love with that beautiful soul. Show me such a man, and I will point out to you a criminal in the making. A man who has never been in love 13 no man at all. I am proud of my adventure, even if it turned out dis- astrously. For. with my experience, I have become a better, a bigger, and a broader man. I have learned to know the value of sacrifice. I.have come to an understanding of the human heart,—something which will always remain a mystery to those who have never been in love. And so I am glad that you publish articles like the one of Thursday’'s. They will awaken in the breasts of your readers a desire to know something of the great love affairs of fiction and life. To those young boys, and girls, who have never read “Lorna Doone,” I hereby suggest that they ask their fathers and mothers to go get them the book. Live in Dooneland for a little while and forget other cares. Understand me, I am not a book agent. L. K. BOGGS. THE HATR PIN. What a Woman Can Do With This Tiny Article, As Set Down By a Conscientious Observer. To the Editor of the Herald:— That which a burgular of plumber cannot accomplish with a kit of tools, s woman can with a hairpin. = Whether the art of manipulating the hairpin has been handed down by mother Eve I know not and care less. But, this I maintain a woman can with a mouthfull of hair pins enter- tain a man mare compleatly and satis- fyingly than can the best five reels that ever gimmered the flickered. And more. A woman on a desert island, if she would, could establish and suc- cessfuly run a sausage factory with no assets but a paper of hairpins, Foolish man 'will tell you that women are not inventive, that the patent sheets at Washington will prove it. This is a fallacy. With a hairpin—one solitary hair- pin—a woman can not anly hook to- gether more hair—false and otherwise —on her head in one gob, tangle or lump than a farmer can rake and cock hay. At one time, it was thought that the hatpin was pre eminent not only as a weapon but as a combinations tool. Not sa now, for a western woman has come forward with the news that a common hairpin as a ‘tramp prodder’ is far more effective. We can see why this may be so, in this day of efficiency, when every little move counts for so much. She says it takes no more strength to shove a hairpin into a ‘bo’ than it daes a hatpin ana the effect is two fold. I think this is so. As I have said, I do not know of a more enthusastic sight than a woman standing before the dresser engaged in ‘cofffuiring’ her coiffeur with half a peck of hairpins In her mouth, un- less it be the same woman rying to talk to a neighbor waiting to accomp- any her to the moving pictures. These comprehensive merits merely mention feeling that I may do so having enjoyed matrimonial bliss in company with four wives who do not use hair pins. Most of their time now being given to setting the crown at just the right angle. I da not think hairpins are used in Heaven. They are not in all probablity used in the other place for hot hairpins would be uncomfortable, I also think I may judge the virtues of the hairpin having worked in the dry good store elght years. Nine times out of ten according to my abservation a woman after pricing every thing in the store will waltz up to the door where she will suddenly clap her hand to her head, then in wild eyed wonder rush to the hairpin counter. You never in your life heard of a woman sending little Willie or Mazie over to her neighbor to borrow hair- pins. Why? Simply because she knows the neighbor has but one. Every woman has but one hairpin—or two at most—the second is the old man who she generally addresses as ‘you old hairpin.’ To a woman one hajrpin is useful that is unless she has a peck. If she image my brain held of Lorna, And | possesses but one she will smilingly do her hair up with that, and thank the gods. If she has a peck they all go into her hair just the same and she thanks nobody. I have seen my wife stand a moment before her glass then sigh as though she had committed murder because she had no room in her hair for the one hairpin she was compelled to leave on the dressing table, bureau or wash- stand. Some of the uses to which the hair- pin may be put, are carefully ap- pended. The list is in no way complete. Any woman who has discovered & new use for the hairpin will confer a favor by acquainting writer with it. Sometimes I have though I would like to see the last letter of a chain that might have made its rounds among the-sisters in which each had added a new use for the hairpin. Here is the list:—Nut pick, lock pick cork puller, see if a cake is done, try potatoes, button, glove and stove hook, prod a tramp, tinker a sewing mach- ine, repair a lawn mower, fish worms out of, a chicken’s neck with the ‘gapes’, fish hook, clean a watch, re- move a sliver, turn ltver (in the fry- ing pan) make a fork, clean a lamp chimney, fasten a window or door, oix a harness, repair a toy, make a sus- pender or clothes hook, make an e8g beater, pick out the gas burner, re- move a mote from the gas man'’s eye, cut a pattern, squash a fly, end mend the pump. In short she'll da any thing she wants to do with a hairpin I've often thought if Robinson Cruso had been Mrs. Robinson Cruso with hair pins enough’she would have made & suspension bridge from-—but what's the use I say God bless waman and may she continue to find use for the hairpin thus keeping herself busy. HENRY WILLIS MITCHELL. GO, MARK HIM WELL! Breathes' There the Man With Soul So Dead, Who Never to Himself Hath Said, I Think I Can Run a Newspaper? To the Editor of the Herald: I am very much pleased to see that it is the honor of the New Brit- ain Herald to discover such brilliant new writers as Messers Mitchell and Boggs. These two are old at the game, according to their own state- ments, and are just beginning to reap the fruits of their labor, which proves the old saying that sticking to it long enough one is bound to win. Or, in other words, keep it up for twenty, or thirty years and perhaps you may re- ceive an invitation to dinner,—like our friend Boggs. I was much in- terested in Mr. Boggs' statement pub- lished in last Saturday’s issue of the Herald to the effect that a newspaper man led a pretty easy life. This has always been my opinion. Surely there is nothing hard about an Editor's job: merely looking over the proof sheets to see that the customers ads are correct, writing a few words oc- casionally for the editorials, if the stenographer is very busy, or being on hand in case there should be any one come In to pay for their subscription in cash. Pretty soft,” I call it. It was my Father’s great desire that I enter the newspaper fleld. Fate was against me however. I have always had to work for a living. There are three things that I have always felt. that I could do: Run a news- paper, raise a mustache, and grow potatoes. I still think I can run a newspaper. 5 "BEN DAVIS. SUCH “LANGWIDGE.” Street Talk of Some Young Girls and Boys Far From .Edifying. To the Editor of the Herald: ‘When will our young boys and girls learn the value of employing carefully selected words in their conversation? I am reminded to ask this quesdon by a communicated article which I read iin the New York Sun a few days ago. The writer therein ocalled attenti®n to the language used by the average girl in New York. There is a striking re- semblarce to some of these sentences in the language which one hears every now and then in this city. The case in point was a young girl talking to her fellow. She said: “Well, I wish you luck fur Gawd knows you- ain’t been bothered with none so far, not s0’s y’could notice it, you ain’t.”” And this from another one to her young man: “My Gawd, do I look like a dricki?” Later on another “horrible example” was added with this, “Fur Gawd’s sake lemme alone. Ain't it hot enough without you mauMn me around like you are?” Aside from the sacriligiousness of it all, the English is terrible. Our schools are falling far short of the mark if this the fin- ished product, and the offenders are generally stenographers, which would evidence the fact that they have had some education; but what kind? In the interest of pure thought and words to express these thoughts why do not the newspapers start a campaign for better spoken interest? It's about time some sweeping reform of this nature were instituted in this coun- try. Otherwise our girls and boys will bring us before we know it into & new “langwidge.” PRO BONO PUBLICO. SOME STORY TELLER. Plainville, Conn., August 10, 1917, To the Editor the Herald:— I was very glad to read what Henry Willis Mitchell wrote for your paper. Mr. Mitchell is a very interesting man. He has to my knowledge been around the world three times and to Berlin and New Britain a few times. I wish he would publish in your paper some of the snake and fish stories he has told around the shop here in Trumbull’'s and Bequassen lodge. T'Il bet your circulation will double. 2 Very Respectfully WILLIAM H. DAY, No Indeed. “Was it your going so fast which hurt you in the collsion?” “No, madam; it was stopping so quick,” Why should members of the Advent church be exempted from War any more than those of any other church? There is nothing in'their creed that says they cannot go to war. The only thing they take their stand on is ‘“Thou Shall Not Kill,” but I suppose they think we ought to let our enemies come over here and kill us and we stand like fools and let them do it. Those people that claim ex- emption because they belong to a denomination that does not believe in war are nothing but cowards and are not fit to have their names on any church book when they would be so disloyal to their flag. I think it time we wake up and stand for the Red, White and Blue. What would our churches be if it were not for the flag. MRS, SHENAR. SPEED ARTISTS. Traffic Cop on Lafayette Street Would Put Brakes on Demon Drivers. To the Editor of the Herald: Unless steps of some kind are taken soon to prevent it, accidents of a se- rious nature are liable to occur most any tlme on Lafayette street, es- pecially between the hours of twelve and one, and six and seven p. m. when the street is thronged with pedes- trians going to and from their re- spective places of employment. There are two drivers in particular of motor- cycles, that need a watchfy] eye on them, as they seem to have no re- spect for God, man or the d 1, but persist in speeding their maechines, beyond the law limit, until they come to Main street where they then reduce the speed in order to avoid the blue coat that is generally there on duty. That a traffic officer on this street 18 much needed, that is at cer- tain hours of the day, goes without saying, and if Chief of Police W. J. Rawlings would detail one there, he would be doing the people a .great favor. There are a number of others that inslst on breaking the law, that will be severely dealt with, unless they conform to the law. G. H. @, 865 Stanley St. Town _fl'opics army, navy and other arms of the fedoral service. Added to this will be at least 513 more ju the draft army. Thus, in round figures there wil] be at least 1,000 men taken out of the city. Each ohe of these men is physically fit and has been most active in civi] life. To take a <an-¢ gervative figure, it might be estimated that each of the men paid $5 per week for board. An average of the whole thousand might show that for clothes, such as neckties, shoes, suits, collars, etc., as well as for laundry, entertainment, tobacco, society duex might average $6 per week. .Added to this might be $2 more for miscel- laneous articles. Thus, it is figured, A each man genetrally spent about $12 per week. Using the total of 1,000 for estimating it would appear that the sum of $12,000 is being lost to New Britain and New Britain mer- chants every week that the soldiers are away. . e Bven though the ukase issued .by ¢ Mayor Quigley over a week ago or= dering all dogs to be muzzled had absolutely no force for the simple reason that the mayor has no right to take such action, the order of the state commissioner that all dogs must be muzzled by August 9 1s ab- solutely binding. Many people own- ing dogs evidently do not realize this, for the number of animals muzzle thus far is negligible. The law was made to be enforced. Save the au- thorities trouble by living up to its terms, .. Lest the public using the highway forget: The state law governing the right of way is that the man on the right always has the right of way. Remember, when coming to cross streets, the man on your right 1, under the law, entitled to cross first. « The same holds true even if you are on the main highway; so don't try. to speed ahead of him. He has the law on his side and if an accident should occur while he was taking ad- vantage of it you might have soms trouble convincing a court that you were observing the law. Moral for everybody: When approaching inter-% secting streets keep your eyes to the right. ' v The state police are expected to shortly make a visit to this city to see how the new theater law, effec- tive August 1, which deals with standing room in theaters or moving True, a good many New RBritain aliens, or sons of alien parents, have stepped forward during the past few months and enlisted for service in the American army, but it certainly has been dishartening during the past week to note the score upop ‘score of alliens, men who have lived here and enjoyed the priviliges and pleasures of this free country, who have re- sponded to the draft call only to take Tefuge behind the law which permits aliens to decline to fight. This at- titude of iddifference on the part of the aliens, those who are physically and otherwise fitted for army service, re- flects anything but credit upan the masses and the more so since in al- most every instance the men thus hiding behind a technical law and avolding their moral duty are from countries now at war. To show the extent of this indifference as it exists in many cases! One man appeared before the exemption board explained that he had lived in this city for twelve years but had never become naturalized. Then he calmly claimed exemption on the ground that he is an alien. Others openly sought ex- emption on physical grounds, explain- ing that they would clalm’' exemption as allens if necessary, but they pre- ferred a doctor’s certificate for, they said, if they were recorded as alien subjects fit far army service their own governments might come over and farce them into service in their own armies. = Why should not aliens who share the benefits and priviliges of this country with the native born and who receive far better treatment here than they ever did at home accept the responsibilities and fight in their turn to protect this 1and? When this draft is over and New Britain’s quota has been sent into the field these aliens will step forth to take jobs left open by the departure of the Americans and naturalized citizens. Then shauld the factories assert their Americanism. They should refuse to recognize and should refuse employment to any alien who was physically fit and otherwise qualified for army service, but who hid behind the alien law. see The findings of the national fire insurance underwriters in this city were most interesting and show, that while the citizens think the city is doing remarkable things in the line of fire prevention, there is in.reality many things that. must be dane be- ore -the city ever gets into the pre- ferred class. Of these, one of the biggest items is the abolishion of the present praoctice of burning papers in the rear of business blocks and the establishment of a city waste paper collection agency. But above all things, every man, woman and child living in this city can co-operate for fire pro- tection by not neglecting trifles.’ Trifi- ing incidents cause great conflagra- tion. Fire prevention is really the sum total of little things. Don‘t carry a lighted match into a closet unless you are prepared to carry your furniture out of the house. Also, the fellow who smokes in bed may be too green to burn—but the bed isn’t. It should llkewise be remembered that time is a vital factor in fighting fires and a flame that you could crush between your thumb and finger, in only a few hours may devastate a city. Bvery man is as morally obligated to keep his house and shop and office clean and free of fire hazards as she is to keep his body clean and pratected from disease. e Possibly but few of New Britain people have yet realized what it means in dollars and cents to have so many of their native sons go out into the service of the army and navy and in this connection and lit- tle estimating might prove of inter- est. Already, it has been estimated by the mayor in his appeal to Wasgh- ington against the city’s draft quota, there are about 500 local men i the picture houses, is being enforced. The text of this law provides that no thdy ater of any kind shall sell tickets to persons after all the seats have been sold, unless the proprietor or his agent makes it plain to the purchaser that there is standing room only. This law is taken to mean that not only must a theater manager display a S. R. O. placard when there are no more seats, but he must also make it plain through the box office that there arer no more seats. Furthermore this law limits the seating capacity of the the- aters, making it obligatory on the management to display In some con- spicuous place a placard telling what the seating capacity is and this figure is to be determined by the state po- lice. The state police will also pre- determine what the standing room, capacity of each theater is. The pen- alty for violating this law is a fine of not more than $25 or imprison- ment for not more than thirty days or both. s e How much longer is the broken light pedistal at the northeastern cor- ner of Centra] Park going to' remailn in its present condition, covered b; an unsightly wooden box? It has been thus for many, many weeks. To either raze the lamp standard entire- ly, or install a new one is the proper thing to do if the beauty of the cen- ter of the city is to be considered. e Main street traffic is rapidly becom- ing accustomed to the new automatic traffic signal. ese are easier fore the officer and lesve no room for doubt on the part @f the drivers. .. The Herald congratulates New Brit- ain's native sons who have success- fully passed the examinations at Plattsburg and have been commis- sioned as officers. They have worked hard and merit their recognitton. DR There is one position well before the public gaze for which no one has an envious glance. That is member- ship on the exemption board. A most trying, dificult and thankless work. No matter how intelligentally the board may rule, there is bound to be. dissatisfaction. As one member of ¢ the board has aptly put it: “After this draft I'm ruined for life.” . Mr. L. K. Boggs, the self confessed globe trotter who has leaped into print several times of late, has not yet "taken his pen in hand” to give; expression to his views of the draft. Possibly Mr. Boggs is one of those\ drafted and being a modest young\ man keeps his views to himself. How- ever, We feel sure he might give us some interesting phiolsopohical “ob- servations. s The passing of Daniel C. Darrow, & well known letter carrier, has caused a sense of genuine regret throughout almost the entire city for, because of t the nature of his life work, Mr. Dar- row became well known to thousands ot plople. Always courteous, accoms= modating and pleasant under all con- ditions, he was the type of public; servant who is admired by all. Car- rier Darrow will be missed. 200 WOUDD BE ATRMEN. Boston, Aug. 11.—Lieut. Charles Glidden, in charge of recruiting for the aviation service in the northeast- ern department, said today he had received more than 200 applications for commissions. He is seeking to obtain 1,600 student aviators from New England. BOSTON TO OPEN MARKETS. Boston, Aug. 11.—Six public mar- kets will be opened next week on land owned by the city. It is hoped ! that much of the present abumdance | of garden produce in the suburbs will in this way reash consumers at mod- erate prices, £ 3 )